Who's Your Rhoda (Your Little One)?"

¹² When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. ¹³ Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. ¹⁴ When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”

 ¹⁵ “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”  ¹⁶ But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.  Acts. 12:12-17
 
Ok so in this verse we discover a few things....Rhoda is a child...that is amongst adults locked in prayer, and as Sweet mentions in the chapter " Who's Your Rhoda?" from the book "The 11......." " A determined Rhoda finally convinced the adults to break away from their prayer exercises......and enjoying the holy of haze of "prayer meetings"...to point out to them the reality of answered prayer." pg.162
 
 

See it's the Rhoda's that Christ is talking about when He says unless you come as a child..........you know....where you still believe in the stories that elude to the mysteries of GOD, where you still are excited about the fact that He's so much BIGGER than you, or your situation....and it's not unbelievable that He's really able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all you can ask or think according to the power that works in you.   It's like remember when you had your imaginary friend....where did they go as you got older?   God isn't imaginary by no stretch of the imagination, but when you close your eyes to pray is it dark (is that what you see or visualize), or are you in whisked away....are you in a throne room....are you before His majesty?  See Rhoda's, little ones...help to keep the child in you......alive, although you are physically aging?  They actually tend to see the unseen...while we think it's just ridiculous, and childish thinking.  The monsters are real (to adults that are little Rhoda's this is these are the rulers of the darkness..the demonic forces that are real and at work)......and we must vanquish them in prayer!

 

So what about you....are you still intrigued by "Once upon a times......" and inspired or encouraged by the " happily ever afters"?  Rhoda's can be your own children...if you haven't killed the splendor of life by making them grow up, or Rhoda's could be your friend that actually believes when they pray GOD is actually doing something on their behalf's.    Rhoda's could be that Pastor who when they do an altar call, are doing it knowing, trusting, and believing that someone in the room is actually coming to give their life to Christ.  Whoever your Rhoda is.....LOVE THEM, send them a note appreciating them, or invite them to dinner.  If you are a Rhoda....I say keep coming to CHRIST as a "Little One" and oh how HE LOVES the little ones....they are really the giants of the faith!   GOD BLESS YOU.  LGLP!